Motivational Interviewing to Increase Physical Activity Behavior in Cancer Patients: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) aimed at evaluating the feasibility and potential efficacy of a motivational interviewing (MI) intervention to increase physical activity (PA) behavior in cancer patients.

Methods

Participants were randomly assigned to an experimental group with standard care plus 12 MI sessions within 12 weeks or a control group with standard care only. The number of recruited participants and the modality of recruitment were recorded to describe the reach of the study. The acceptability of the study was estimated using the attrition rate during the intervention phase. The potential efficacy of the intervention was evaluated by analyzing the PA behavior.

Results

Twenty-five participants were recruited within the 16-month recruitm

SUBMITTER: Lion A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7092651 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature